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London based record label and events company Makin’ Moves now into it’s 7th year celebrate their 100th label release with a exclusive free invite party inside LP on Saturday 6th April.

The Makin’ Moves team have worked with some of dance music’s most underground artists in the last 6 years including Chicago’s Peven Everett, Glenn Underground, to NYC’s DJ Spinna and Timmy Regisford to UK soul legends Lifford Shillingford and Omar to name but a few.

For their 100th release they have man of the moment Manoo from Lyon in France on remix duties. He’s also an awesome dj and for this special event will be flying into town to join Makin’ Moves resident DJs Matt L-S and Jamesey who will be bringing their unique soulful house sound to one of London’s best kept secrets, LP a very cool intimate 200 capacity club with chequerboard dance floor hidden inside the Curtain!!

As a dj, Manoo is undoubtedly one of the greatest talents and a rising stars of the French House community. Manoo built himself a strong reputation as a Dj in the late 90’s as resident of the Ambassade Club in Lyon in France. From early on the locals loved Manoo’s sets and it wast long before people from far and wide were coming to hear him. He now travels the world playing but still makes time to keep his residency at Ambassade club.

In 2001, Manoo took his first steps into production and started the Rodamaal project with his friends Alex and Rocco. Their first release “Love Island on Jazz-up Records was picked up by a lot of top djs. This furthered their reputation and led Ben Watt (Everything but the Girl) to sign them to his label Buzzin’ Fly Records.

In 2004-2005 more records followed with collaborations with Francois A and has since go not release his music on German label Innervisions and Ron Trent’s Future Vision imprint. Aswell as remixes on Quantize Recordings, MoBlack, Tribe, King Street and Kemet Soul.

Our next release is a hot new remix of one of our favourite past releases ‘Hey Lover’ from Aisling Iris.

Aisling has worked with some of the top names in the soul, hip-hop and jazz world including Roots Manuva, Domu. More recently she has worked with the likes of Phil Asher and the Urban Soul Lab.

Hitting you now you fresh remixes from UK based producer Josh Grooves (Movementcalledhouse) who surely doesn’t disappoint! Giving you his take with a live club mix which compliments Aisling’s vocals and also a broken mix for the deeper heads.

Frank McComb is a divine soul man who speaks with the native tongue of soul, jazz, blues and pop. His virtuoso vocal and piano work has made him not only an indispensable and highly sought after session musician, but a favorite on the soul, jazz and R&B scenes.

Cast In Your Spell originally appeared on the Past, Present, Future EP that we dropped in the summer of 2015. One of our favourite tracks form that EP was ‘Cast In Your Spell’ featuring the distinctive voice of Monday Michiru. This new release now features remixes from Adam Rios and Mark Lewis AKA AMFLOW.

Available on Traxsource.com from Friday 20th April 2018 as an exclusive promo.

Saturday 19th MayHouse 4 Soul @ Omeara

House 4 Soul, London’s monthly night of all things soulful at Omeara goes from strength with another heavy line up for our next event on Saturday 19th May!

In the house room residents Matt L-S and Jamesey are joined by Chicago legend Terry Hunter for an exclusive 3 hour set! Terry is one of the biggest names in house music right now, having worked with some big names including Jill Scott, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, R. Kelly, Byron Stingily (of Chicago’s Ten City), Barbara Tucker and La India. He’s also part of the ‘Chosen Few Picnic’ a massive house music festival that happens in Chicago in July!

This month in the Soul Connoisseurs room we have an exclusive return of the Masters of Rare Groove from all the major Soul Systems who helped break the genre in the 80s. Street Life Unlimited, Winner Roadshow, Company Soul Sound, Ladies Choice…

Two rooms of music Soulful & Deep House with Makin Moves plus Soul Connoisseurs with Mi-Soul Connoisseurs.

Back once again is our good friend Sheldon So Goode bringing us his rendition of a Marvin Gaye classic ‘I Want U’! Classic vocal and bringing a fresh vibe with the music made to keep the feet moving on the dance floor. Also on this package, Sheldon’s unreleased mixes of ‘Where U R’ which was a summer hit for Makin’ Moves. These mixes will surely not disappoint to all soulful music lovers. We hope you enjoy this as much as we do. Enjoy…

Available as an exclusive promo on Traxsource.com from Monday 19th March. Make sure you grab your copy!

Come With Me was the first of three great singles we’ve released on the label over the passed couple of years produced by Italian producers Gianluca Pighi & Massimo Paramour with the awesome vocals of Ahmad Larnes.

Step forward one of our good friends and favourite dj/producers Jihad Muhammad (Bang The Drum). Jihad hails from New Jersey, USA and has always provided a high quality output with his productions. Also a phenomenal dj we’re also pleased to have him join us on our weekly show on HouseFM.net.

Jihad always had a spot spot for this track so went about remixing it and what a smooth job he’s done!

We welcome two new faces to the label for our latest release, singer Dawn Souluvn Williams and DJ Wali B from New Jersey.

Dawn Souluvn Williams crossed over into the Soulful House music world in 2009 and began to blossom almost over night. Discovered on Facebook by Moises Modestro, she recorded and co-wrote “Release” aka “Funky Beep” with Moises and Duane Hardin. From there she wrote and recorded “Live, Love, Laugh” in 2009 produced by Bruce Jeffers of Phunk Farmers Music. “Live, Love, Laugh” opened doors for Dawn around the world and she wrote and recorded her first Charted and #1 Hit title “New Me” produced by Jonny Montana.

This is Wali Bs first move into producing and with Tiger Wilson on synths it works the floor so well. Were pretty sure this is not going to be the last production that we will be hearing from Wali!

This very infectious piece of soulful house has been a big hit on the Makin Moves show for the last few months and in the cd wallets of the likes of Louie Vega, Jihad Muhammad, Danny Krivit, Joe Claussell.